The Early Drug Courts
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 9781452231976
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 9781452231976
Author : W. C. Terry, III
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 1999-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761907246
A natural companion to the recently published Drug Control and the Courts (SAGE 1996), this accessible volume focuses on five case studies in judicial innovation - the dedicated drug treatment courts in Miami, Oakland, Fort Lauderdale, Portland and Phoenix. Each case is presented in a chapter written by a local expert to describe and evaluate five prime examples of dedicated drug treatment courts. These chapters are written to a common outline and each discuss the following points: community demographics; structural organization of the court; court caseloads, including drug cases; successes and failures of initial goals and objectives and subsequent adaptations; and measures of long-term successes and failures.
Author : National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Drug Court Standards Committee
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drug courts
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Author : Kerwin Kaye
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231547099
In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Situating drug courts in a long line of state projects of race and class control, Kerwin Kaye details the ways in which the violence of the state is framed as beneficial for those subjected to it. He explores how courts decide whether to release or incarcerate participants using nominally colorblind criteria that draw on racialized imagery. Rehabilitation is defined as preparation for low-wage labor and the destruction of community ties with “bad influences,” a process that turns participants against one another. At the same time, Kaye points toward the complex ways in which participants negotiate state control in relation to other forms of constraint in their lives, sometimes embracing the state’s salutary violence as a means of countering their impoverishment. Simultaneously sensitive to ethnographic detail and theoretical implications, Enforcing Freedom offers a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.
Author : Jennifer Murphy
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1439910235
Is drug addiction a disease that can be treated, or is it a crime that should be punished? In her probing study, Illness or Deviance?, Jennifer Murphy investigates the various perspectives on addiction, and how society has myriad ways of handling it—incarcerating some drug users while putting others in treatment. Illness or Deviance? highlights the confusion and contradictions about labeling addiction. Murphy’s fieldwork in a drug court and an outpatient drug treatment facility yields fascinating insights, such as how courts and treatment centers both enforce the “disease” label of addiction, yet their management tactics overlap treatment with “therapeutic punishment.” The “addict" label is a result not just of using drugs, but also of being a part of the drug lifestyle, by selling drugs. In addition, Murphy observes that drug courts and treatment facilities benefit economically from their cooperation, creating a very powerful institutional arrangement. Murphy contextualizes her findings within theories of medical sociology as well as criminology to identify the policy implications of a medicalized view of addiction.
Author : John S. Goldkamp
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Court administration
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Author : James L. Nolan Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2003-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691114750
The findings reported in this book are based upon ethnographic observations of drug courts throughout the United States and provide a glimpse into the unique character of the American drug court model, considering the qualities and consequences of this form of criminal adjudication.
Author : Jeffrey A. Butts
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780877667254
This book examines the ideas behind juvenile drug courts and explores their history and popularity. The collection assesses the evidence supporting juvenile drug courts and guides the next generation of evaluation research.
Author : James Hennessy
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780789016959
Drug Courts in Operation: Current Research provides an in-depth look at an innovative approach to rehabilitating substance abusers. Drug courts offer their participants a chance to better themselves by providing support and structure to those that do not have it in their life. The book examines the history of drug courts as a principal treatment alternative to incarceration, outlines the risk factors of children living with drug-addicted parents, and introduces a program to help strengthen families. There is emphasis on the need for cultural and gender specific treatment plans, research on how drug court participants balance (or have difficulty balancing) the responsibilities of job and family with the program requirements, and reports on variables that predict engagement in treatment.
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Court administration
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